One very dark night in the Northern corner of MR4 in the RVN an aircraft ID'd itself as BlackBird xx requesting coordinates of an area to be searched 'X' Klicks long by 'Y' Klicks wide and clearance to call fires on anything not positively identified as friendlies. It further requested the call sig...

Oh clearly they could hide a few SRs and tankers in the desert, and could easily surveil a lot of the western hemisphere from there. But covering Europe, the Middle East and Asia would require tanker support in those areas, and I doubt you can do THAT from Nevada. There's a reason the SRs had operat...

Served as a JAG at Beale AFB, CA from 68 to 72. It was my initial duty station, and I entered the base through a side gate that was pretty much in line with the departure end of the runway. I'd been in law school for 3 years and had never heard of the SR-71, but as soon as I got on the base one took...